Tipton, Addie "Ada" (Muzzy) died 1905

TIPTON, MUZZY, BOWERS, ADAMS, WRIGHT

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 5/23/2021 at 19:18:13

Elkader Register, Thur., 09 Mar. 1905.

Mrs. Addie (or Ada) Muzzy Tipton was born in Elkader, Iowa, and with the exception of one year in school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has spent the largest portion of her life in Elkader. She was the only daughter of Charles and Sarah Muzzy. Her mother dying before she was old enough to realize her loss. She was under the care of her aunt, Mrs. Bowers, who was eminently qualified morally and intellectually to guide her charge into habits of usefulness, until her father's second marriage with Mrs. Adams, who filled the duties of a mother to the satisfaction of her father and their friends. Mrs. Tipton gave early signs of those high moral and spiritual characteristics, that has prepared her for the responsibilities of life and placed her upon the high altitude that women attain who become God's heroines. Besides secular school work she studied vocal music, and until her marriage was always in her place in the choir.

As a teacher of public schools as well as Sunday Schools, she was winsome, thorough and indefatigable, and her influence over her scholars was most pleasing and helpful. She was endowed with a bright sunny disposition, cordial, frank, generous and sympathetic. Upon her marriage with Mr. Tipton her fine sensibilities and refined tastes gave her high ideals of what a home should be and her sympathetic nature, so richly endowed with womanly instincts - combined with self sacrifice and self-abnegation enabled her to devote all her energies to reach her ideal in its highest sense. When a change of climate was advised, with the hope of Mr. Tipton's improvement, she left a pleasant house and a large circle of congenial friends and went out on a prairie in Dakota, completely isolated from society, with no neighbors and many limitations, always trying to "make hard things seem easy and bitter things sweet." As time went on and her husband's strength failed she took up the study of pharmacy (which had been Mr. Tipton's life work,) superintended her household affairs and prosecuting her studies with persistent and untiring efforts, overcoming all obstacles, conquering all difficulties until her diploma was won, and she was able to relieve her invalid husband from business cares and labor. One of her most intimate friends during this period told the writer that she never heard a word of regret from Mrs. Tipton. She leaves a son and daughter with the legacy of an enriched life for their inspiration and limitation, for

"None knew her but to love her,
None named her but to praise."

Mrs. Sophia Muzzy Wright.